1700 World Population about 610 Million; 1701 Yale U founded (as the Collegiate School of America, becomes Yale College 1718); 1702 London's 'Daily Courant' 1st daily newspaper

1705 Halley predicts return of comet

1717 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: innoculates her two children against smallpox (vaccine idea from Turkey)

1721 Jean Palfyn introduces use of forceps as aid to birthing

Science

1700 Ole Romer invents meridian telescope; 1701 Jethro Tull invents machine drill for planting seeds; 1704 John Harris, *Lexicon Technicum* technical encyclopedia- explains 8000 scientific terms; Newton- theory of optics

1705 Hooke's lectures (pub post-hum), earthquakes may have changed planet's surface; 1707 Floyer -physician's pulse watch (intro's pulse counting); G. Stahls, *Theoria Medica Vera* animalistic theory, the soul as physiological process

1710 Jacob Le Blon invents 3-color printing; 1712 Vol.1 (of 3) Flamsteed's catalog of 2884 stars (pub w/o permission); Newcomen 1st practical steam engine w/ picton & cylinder; 1714 Gabriel Fahrenheit builds mercury thermometer & scale to go with it

1723 Jacob Leupole *Theatrum Machinarum Generale* (General Theory of Machines), 9 vols --1723-1739, 1st systematic treatment of mechanical engineering

1709 *New Theory of Vision* George Berkeley, 18th C. most significant contribution to psychology

1710 Berkeley's *Principles of Human Knowledge* promotes his doctrine that 'being' requires perception; 1713 W. Derham *Physico-theology, or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from His Works of Creation* 'The best of all possible worlds'